Search results for “[Subject: ancient]”

• Author(s): Agata Ulanowska • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ArchaeologyFrom the Back CoverThe diverse developments in textile research of the last decade, along with the increased recognition of the importance of tex...

• Author(s): P. Meineck • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThis ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the...

• Author(s): W. R. Knorr • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: Geometry - GeneralFor textual studies relating to the ancient mathematical corpus the efforts by the Danish philologist, 1. L. Heiberg (1854-1928), are especi...

• Author(s): Kenneth A. Loparo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralBeing a subject and being conscious of being one are different realities. According to Hegel, the difference is n...

• Author(s): Peter Øhrstrøm • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: LogicTemporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial systematic questions withi...

• Author(s): J. David Thomas • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationIt is over sixty years since the office of epistrategos in Roman Egypt was subjected to a detai...

• Author(s): Jorge Gamboa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ArchaeologyArchaeological Heritage in a Modern Urban Landscape evaluates issues about the preservation, social role and management of archaeological sites in t...

• Author(s): F. G. Hubert | Na Kopp • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Ancient - RomeNicht ohne Bedenken bin ich der Aufforderung, die Neubearbeitung der "Römischen Staats-, Sakral- und Kriegs- altertümer von Kopp" zu üb...

• Author(s): A. Harden • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalThis sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the pl...

• Author(s): Malin Grahn-Wilder • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryFrom the Back CoverThis book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers' views on gender and sexuality. A detailed s...

• Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Ancient Languages (see also Latin)This book was written as a doctoral thesis. It was submitted to and accepted by the University of Poona in 1979. Sever...

• Author(s): Rachel Alexander • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFrom the Back CoverThis book is an amateur astronomer's guide to the mythology and symbolism associated with the celest...

• Author(s): Joseph W. Dauben • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: History & PhilosophyFrom the Back CoverAs an historiographic monograph, this book offers the first detailed survey of the professional evolution and ...

• Author(s): J. Neisser • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Mind & BodyCan neuroscience help explain the first-person perspective? The Science of Subjectivity delves into the nature of experience, arguing th...

• Author(s): Robert Hornback • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverThis book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing R...

• Author(s): S. Brady • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe book brings together for the first time John Addington Symonds' key writings on homosexuality, and the...

• Author(s): Rongxing Guo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeFrom the Back CoverThis book presents a methodological framework for the analysis of intercultural issues frequently misin...

• Author(s): Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIslamic jurisprudence has undergone many historical changes since the time of Prophet Muhammad, and researc...

• Author(s): Hong Xu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ArchaeologyFrom the Back CoverThis book offers an archaeological study on China's ancient capitals. Using abundant illustrations of ancient capital sites, it verifi...

• Author(s): Beth Shapiro • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Humana • BISAC: GeneticsFrom the Back CoverResearch into ancient DNA began more than 25 years ago with the publication of short mitochondrial DNA sequence fragments from the qua...

• Author(s): Ricardo Apostol • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalFrom the Back CoverThis volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to ...

• Author(s): Lawrence B. Conyers • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - GeophysicsThis book presents the integrated use of magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar geophysical mapping to understand the human prese...

• Author(s): Jürgen Rettinger • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis updated and revised textbook presents a broad overview on topics concerning cellular electrophysiology - ranging from bioelectric phenomen...

• Author(s): Raija Mattila • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer vs • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFrom the Back CoverWhile Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancien...

• Author(s): S. Horton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)A study of the surprising functions of Buddhist statues, which helped disseminate Buddhist beliefs am...

• Author(s): David H. Kelley • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverExploring Ancient Skies brings together the methods of archaeology and the insights of modern astronomy to explo...

• Author(s): A. Bala • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: HistoryArun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathemati...

• Author(s): Susanne Hummel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsAncient DNA Typing is a comprehensive manual about the analysis of ancient and degraded DNA. It is an equally useful t...

• Author(s): Évelyne Barbin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - MathematicsThis book brings together 10 experiments which introduce historical perspectives into mathematics classrooms for 11 to 18-ye...

• Author(s): Sandra M. Schmöckel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyFrom the Back CoverThis book focuses on quinoa, providing background information on its history, summarizing recent genetic and ge...

• Author(s): Dietrich V. Engelhardt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Endocrinology & MetabolismDiabetes in Medizin- und Kulturgeschichte behandelt die Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung dieses Leidens vo...

• Author(s): Li Chen | Yunyan Zheng • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThis book presents a study of the history of ancient Chinese books, not only highlighting specific aspects...

• Author(s): Kuo-Hung Hsiao • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: MachineryFrom the Back CoverThis book presents a unique approach for studying mechanisms and machines with drawings that were depicted unclearly in ancient C...

• Author(s): Yaomin He • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China. It mainly...

• Author(s): Thorsten Botz-Bornstein • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: AestheticsFrom the Back CoverThis book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiq...

• Author(s): E. Feser • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalAristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle ...